Tax rates per $1,000 of assessed value would range from $7.74 to $9.13 depending on where one lives.

For example, Oneida has a 100 percent equalization rate. If a home were valued at $100,000, the $7.74 per $1,000 tax rate, would bring a $774 county tax bill, said Mark Scimone, county administrative assistant.

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At Tuesday's meeting, supervisors will set public public hearings, planned for Tuesday, Nov. 27 at 9:50 a.m. and 7 p.m., said county Treasurer Cindy Edick.

If all goes as planned, a final budget for 2013 would be adopted on Friday, Dec. 7.

Edick said that there are a few major cuts to this year's budget.

Total spending, not including internal funding transfers, is set at $105 million. The proposed county tax levy will be $30.1 million, a 2.3 percent increase from approximately $29.4 million in the 2012 budget.

Edick said remaining revenue comes from state and federal funding and sales tax revenue.

Edick said local non-profits will see a $400,000 decrease in funding.

"We didn't get the mandate relief we needed," she said.

Among the hardest-hit will be libraries, which are slated to receive no money.

In 2012, Madison County libraries combined received $114,554.

Of that, the Oneida Public Library received $14,000, said Tom Murray, assistant director.

If that's eliminated in 2013, Murray said that the library might be forced to make operational cuts, but "we're not really sure what that will mean."

Murray said cuts could be in the form of reduced staff hours, program cuts or reductions in book acquisitions, "which are the lifeblood of libraries."

Nothing will be decided until the library's budget review in January.

He asked county residents to contact the board of supervisors and ask for a reprieve.

"If (residents) are interested in the quality of life in the area, they should be concerned," Murray said.

County officials note that other cuts have been made in the budget.

"The county highway department has also taken big hits," Edick said.

The Highway Department faces $1.7 million in cuts, according to Scimone.

Construction projects have been cut by $500,000, eliminating 6.8 miles of repaving. With roughly 438 miles of road the county maintains, a rehabilitation schedule of 20 miles per year is necessary to maintain existing conditions. However, the tentative budget will allow for only 13.2 miles to be paved.

Approximately $200,000 will be cut from bridge maintenance funds, which could mean bridge closures if repair funds are not available.

Other cuts include $500,000 from highway equipment purchases, $200,000 from snow removal and $240,000 from county highway maintenance funds.

She said that in order to keep property tax increases from exceeding the state cap, the county needed cut funding to a lot of areas.

"There is only so much we can do," Edick said.

In other actions at Tuesday's meeting, the board will set a public hearing on the 2013 budget for the Madison County Sewer District, and a public hearing for the Cowaselon Watershed District.

If approved, a public hearing for the county sewer district would be held Tuesday, Nov. 27 at 9:30 a.m., and the public hearing for the Cowaselon Watershed District would be held 10 minutes later.

Both public hearings are needed for approval of the district's tentative budgets.

Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting, and all public hearings, are open to the public and held in the board's chambers on the second floor of the county office building on Court Street in Wampsville.